Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — PACKERS ARE DOING THEIR BIT [ARTICLE]

PACKERS ARE DOING THEIR BIT

To Win the War, Says Advisory Sueprintendent of Swilt & CO. Chicago, October 14.—American packers are doing far more than merely furnishing meat foods to the soldiers and sailors of the United States and her allies, according to C S. Churchill, advisory superintendent for Swift & Company, who addressed the American Meat Packers’ convention today. ’’The general public realizes little of the work that the packer is •doing to win the war,” said Mr. Churchill. “W are furnishing a great deal of material for the manufacture of munitions, including glycerine, potash, and sulphuric acid. ’ Our sheep skins are used to manufacture cold-proof coats. “Every pound of wool that we have is taken by the government as fast as we prod ce it, and the price is fixed by the government. “There isn’t a pound of stock food manufactured today thJt ie not being used to help win the war, because-it goes to put weight .on live stock that is badly needed >y our soldiers' and sailors. “The tons of fertilizer which we manufacture aid in growing more crops that will be used later to feed more soldier* to fight the HUN. Glue has its uses. Soap certainly is a big item. Albumen is another highly important product; it is now used in the oonBtructioit. es aeroplanes. “There are also many other products, too- numerous to mention, not one of which, 1 believe, does

not have an important place in the conduct of the war. We,\ of Swift & Company, believe in giving credit where credit is duq and I want to say that our labor has performed cheerfully the giant tanks set for u i by the Food Administration. No order has been too big, no job too overwhelming for them. “Recognition of this willingness to serve has resulted in an increase for male labor totaling more than 100 per cent since February, 1916. In the case of our female help the increase has been even greater, this help now receiving' 165 per cent more than in 1916.” To take care of the war business Mr. Churchill said that all the packers in the country had been forced to build new freezers and buildings of every description at a cost two to three times greater than pre-war cost. ■Hie paid -tribute to the government inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry and of the army who select the meat, .nd said: “In addition to the safeguard that this is to the soldier and sailor, it is a safeguard to ue. It safeguards us from attack from those who for their own personal aggrandisement or for other reasons may seek to criticise unjustly one 'of the few industries that in the early days of the war, and up to the present time, has continued to. supply our Government with what is wanted, as it wanted it, when it was needed, vgithout quibble as to price. “That is a record’ of which we should be proud, gentlemen. It demonstrates that we are doing-not our bit, but our full share toward winding this war, doing it cheerfully, willingly and because we are in this war to win; and to win, our soldiers must be fed and fed with good food.”